Weight shouldn't delay death

7:43 PM,
Sep. 26, 2012

Written by

Chloe Oliver

I am just a soft marshmallow about anything concerning animals, children, those with disabilities or old people. Yet I am not a bleeding heart when it concerns criminals and their punishments.

Several sources, including ABC News and NYDailyNews.com have reported a story about an Ohio inmate whose attorneys recently filed federal papers proposing that executing the 486-pound death-row inmate "in his current condition" might result in a "torturous and lingering death."

After being sentenced to death in 1983 for twice shooting a hotel clerk in the back of her head and then making off with ...